Jamie Lee Curtis Basks In The Glow of Halloween’s Huge Opening Weekend

You can forgive Jamie Lee Curtis if she takes a small victory lap today. As the the original “scream queen,” she took on the Shape in the original Halloween. In that film (her first) she was paid $8,000 for her role as Laurie Strode and the indie film cost roughly $325,000 to make. Fast forward to the present and the newest incarnation of Halloween pulled in a tidy $77.5 million in its opening. This is the second-biggest October opening weekend, just behind Sony’s Venom, which set the mark just weeks ago at $80.2 million.

Not one to toot her own horn, Curtis decided to brag just a bit:

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With the success of Halloween, don’t you think Jamie Lee Curtis, David Gordon Green, John Carpenter, Blumhouse and company deserved to brag a little? They chose to disregard all the previous sequels and make a definitive follow-up 40 years in the making. For those who have seen Halloween, did it measure up to the original? For those who haven’t, do you plan to? Share what you think with us at GVNation.

Martin

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